One quick question. Have you watched the file and does it skip the commercials in the correct spot when viewing or does it happen to leave some and does it match up to where your edit is having problems.

Even the mighty replay is not infallible and sound/black screens etc can confuse the commercial skip sequence.

Well the file that EVTDump creates is no good. It doesn't pick up the commercials correctly at all. That's why I want to just write my own.

As for the script I write, the first drop point (where the delete begins) is correct, and from what I recall (I deleted the file last week) it came back in at the right point. It's where I scripted the next drop point that it seemed to get out of sync. I suppose I should try running it again a do a more detailed analysis.

What I'm really trying to do right now though is get a better understanding of the scripting techniques above. As in why are there multiple A's in a row? Why would you punch in, then out, then in and in, then out and so on?

I'm still curious if my premises in points 1-3 are correct however.

Anyway, just to be clear, my intent is not to move these files back on to the DVR, just to strip the commericals out then save to DVD/CD/HardDrive as a normal MPG and be able to play them on my Insignia (iPod) when I travel.

I believe the problem is not with the evt file but with replay tools or whatever the coversion program is that evtdump is using. For some reason, these tools have not worked correctly since the change in windows media player versions. There are several other posts in the forums here that you can browse for more info but basically, unless someone makes a new set of tools, the old ones just basically stopped working for replay streams.

I tried womble, but really liked Video Redo better than womble and I think it was less expensive.

You can also manually covert the files using several public domain programs but I could not find anything for free that did a good job of editing the files consistenly.

IT sucks because I used to use a few tools based on rtvtools that were free and worked awesome. Darn it. Wish I knew how to program, but don't have the time.